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French rocker prefers California to Gstaad

This content was published on Jan 17, 2014 Hallyday’s wife Laeticia confirmed on French radio on Friday that the whole family had been American residents since last year. The singer was forced to state his place of residence after an investigation by Swiss public radio RTS showed that he spent only 15 days in Gstaad last year instead of the six months required…

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Burkhalter outlines Swiss goals for 2014

This content was published on Jan 16, 2014 Burkhalter, who serves as the OSCE’s Chairperson-in-Office this year, told representatives of the 57 participating states that Switzerland had three main goals for its chairmanship: to promote security and stability, to improve people’s living conditions, and to strengthen the OSCE’s capacity to act. “Regarding our first objective of fostering security and stability, advancing regional cooperation…

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Police recruitment of foreigners divides opinion

This content was published on Jan 16, 2014 Richard Wolff, head of the police department in the city of Zurich, did not expect so much controversy when, in mid-September, he took stock of his first 100 days in office. He had proposed to integrate foreigners into the police force of Switzerland’s largest city. Criticism wasn’t long in coming. Both the police officers’ union and…

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Verint to supply new Swiss spying system

This content was published on Jan 15, 2014 The new programme, worth CHF13 million ($14.2 million), is intended for the federal and cantonal police and justice departments and should be up and running at the end of 2015. It will replace the current version of the system known as Interception System Schweiz (ISS). “The federal authorities finalised a contract on December 18,” Matthias…

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Switzerland ups its aid pledge to Syria

This content was published on Jan 13, 2014 On January 15, the UN will convene its latest international donor conference in Kuwait, where it will appeal to member countries to contribute a total of $6.5 billion in assistance to Syria in 2014 – its largest appeal yet. Since March 2011, Switzerland has pledged CHF55 million to people affected by the Syrian crisis; the…

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Federal Railways fails to meet on-time targets

This content was published on Jan 12, 2014 The number of passengers arriving on time decreased compared with 2012 (88%) and 2011 (89.8%). The reason cited for the decline was work being done in the Zurich area, with the delays then affecting numerous trains in other areas of Switzerland. Some regions were less affected: travellers in French-speaking Switzerland, for example, arrived on time…

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Adapting to life in a multilingual society

This content was published on Jan 11, 2014

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SBC poll

This content was published on Jan 10, 2014

Workers block border over healthcare change

This content was published on Jan 10, 2014 According to the Federal Customs Administration, some 150 protestors –some of whom belong to the Amicale des frontaliers group – caused 15km of tail-backs on Friday at crossings near Charbonnières, Brassus, Auberson and Vallorbe in canton Vaud, as well as at Brenets, Col de France, Le Cerneux-Péquignot and Verrières in canton Neuchâtel. Since October 2013 similar…

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Swiss commission fines airlines for price-fixing

This content was published on Jan 10, 2014 The involved airlines – among them British Airways, Air France-KLM, Korean Airlines, SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) and Singapore Airlines – will be fined a total of CHF11 million ($12.1 million) for agreeing on freight rates, fuel surcharges, war risk surcharges, customs clearance surcharges for the United States and on the commissioning of surcharges. Lufthansa Airlines, of…

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